When our little guy was a baby, my husband and I could easily spend hours in a day simply reading to him (it’s pretty easy reading to an infant when they don’t move around so much!). He knew how to turn pages at an early age, and was often easily entertained with the simplicity of [...]
Tag: learning to read
My toddler has gone book-bonkers and spends a huge chunk of his day flipping through books. He likes to recite the lines, all the while tracing the words with his fingers as if he were really reading them. Or we’ll hear, “What’s that say?” as he points to lines in a book (of course asking [...]
We started reading to our toddler very early so that from the day he was born we’ve yet to pass a day without having read a book. Literacy—or rather, the love of reading and knowledge—remains a priority in our family. Below are some of the ways we’ve encouraged reading: Reading in a relaxed environment The [...]
At 22 months, LO is chugging along with learning his colors, numbers and alphabet letters. So far, he can identify basic colors (red, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange, pink, purple, black, white, brown). I now have the habit of asking what color something is: “What color is the truck?” He can also identify and say [...]
I just finished a book by John Holt called Learning All the Time. The biggest point I got out of the book is that children are wired to learn; that learning isn’t an activity that’s set aside during school or when they’re reading. Learning is like breathing to kids. You don’t really tell someone, “That’s [...]
